I've been using the nightlies and haven't had a problem with Slashdot for a while.
That said, if you really do feed a copy of any slashdot page to a web validator, it comes up with 100+ errors. The problem is that direct linking of Slashdot to validators have been banned by Slashdot maintainers.
Maybe it depends on how you define hype, but I saw a lot of Doom III hype.
"Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion"
I'd say that Doom III qualifies. Especially as people were planning their computer upgrades around it and herding into the belief that it's going to be a good game despite never having played it or seen it in action.
I don't get why you say HL2 was highly hyped and Doom III was not, I'd say the hype levels were pretty equal between them.
I thought Mac OS X was a lot more than just another Unix. If I only cared to run Unix, I'd just run some Linux distro on an x86 computer.
Actually, I do run Linux distros on a couple x86 computers running as servers and other network machines that run Linux, but I control them using a Mac, so I get a great GUI desktop interface and still have compatibility with Unix software.
If it is prefetching everything, then I would have a problem with that, from a different perspective. That increases the amount of bandwidth used by fetching a lot of pages that might not be followed. That means increased bandwidth costs unless enough users use the system such that Google's caching means that it most of the given files are already in their cache.
It is perfectly acceptable for people to believe God uses evolution as a tool. But it is not science.
I agree. I hate it when people read texts as being what it probably what it wasn't indended to be. Religious texts were probably never intended to be the final word on science, and science texts should not be used as a final word on religion.
It bothers me when people try to reconcile them, or assume that both are contradictory. I see them as very likely being orthogonal. I don't believe that the creation accounts should be taken as literal fact.
In fact, the Hebrew/Christian story of Genesis has TWO (or more?) accounts of creation, if you took both literally, then they contradict, so I figure at least one must be non-literal. I don't see how either of them necessarily has to be literal accounts of physical reality. There are many other places where statements can't be taken literally, only meant to show parallels in aiding understanding the spiritual world.
I think the list of things Hollywood gets RIGHT is much more managable. A lot of times, I think it is punched up to make it more interesting.
Road vehicles generally don't explode on a crash.
The backdraft effect in "Backdraft" is so overstated that the real thing is so boring that it wouldn't be the title of a movie unless they massively exaggerated it.
Then there's science fiction, it's hard enough for them to get their units right, never mind have internally consistent physics.
The very problem is that UMD Movies ARE selling, according to some, too well.
I agree that they are too stiffly priced. Some UMD movies are decently priced but even those should be cheaper.
To me, the convenience of portability doesn't balance out the lower resolution (little better than VCD), fewer features and the complete inability to display them on a screen other than a PSP's is pretty limiting.
Helping fund something still isn't creating it. I can buy a car, but I didn't have anything to do with inventing or creating it.
But then, geeks claim they "build" computers, even if the most they did was assemble a pile of pre-made parts. To me, turning screws and inserting tabs into slots doesn't make a builder.
It may be a good deal if you get dedicated bandwidth, provided that the connection is solid. And T1 isn't necessarily solid if you have incompetents doing the service, my local telco retards came out a dozen times in the last year fixing various line problems for my company's T1.
I would get concerned about pranksters or extorters trying to jam the signal. It's illegal to do that but the FCC doesn't seem to enforce their RF rules very much.
I'm inclined to believe that the ATI is good. Various VIA chipsets have had known issues with other hardware, like Creative's PCI sound cards, and there are notes with my Immersive video capture card that has a checkbox for a VIA workaround, no other brand required a workaround.
I doubt 512MB is necessary for that unless maybe you are running two 30" Cinema displays, and even then... Basically that is 128 million pixel storage capacity at 32bpp. One frame on a 30" Cinema display would be about 4.1 million pixels, so you'd need to have 16 full screen apps before running out on a system with 256MB cards.
My Mac mini does pretty well with 32MB on a 2048x1536 screen resolution, which is 3.2MP.
I don't mind a single reboot to install a graphics driver. As it is, there is no means to hot-plug an AGP video card that I'm aware of, so down time is required just to install that upgrade. I don't see rebooting for a very occasional upgrade. However, I don't think a reboot should be necessary for most software.
One of the things I like about OS X is that I don't have to reboot to use most software. Some OS level upgrades do require a reboot though.
Flash memory has have a limited number of writes, hard drives have a lot more writes by orders of magnitudes. Flash memory writing can also be very slow.
I think what you mean is battery backed up memory, which I think is ordinary DRAM chips with battery backed memory controller to keep the memory refreshed.
I didn't know there was a contractual relationship with iTunes the software. You shouldn't need to sign up for the music store just to use the iTunes program.
Some people use a Gentoo system in part to be an aggressive stability test. If no problems arise from constant use of the CPU, memory and drive systems being constantly used for hours or days on end, and the result works, then it is likely a very stable system.
The 30" display price hasn't moved, it was $2999 for a while now. When it was first introduced, it was something like $3299 but has gone down several months ago, I think.
There are rights issues to consider, as the seller has to have the legal right to sell that track in the locale. Probably other legal issues as well. It does seem kind of silly, given that importing CDs is a trivial thing for a lot of people.
I think the referral link raises the chance of a conflict of interest. It can also be seen as a strong potential for astroturfing, where one could make up a fluff story and slyly put in a referral link in the submission. Not that either matter on Slashdot anymore, I think the chances of any story submission being unbiased and not being an ad is an all-time low now.
IIRC, the released versions of Windows NT for AXP simply used the CPU as a 32 bit machine in terms of addressing. The line about executing 64 bit instrucitons as 32 bit instructions in parallel" makes no sense because things don't work that way. The instruction word length for AXP was 32 bit just like any other 64 bit CPU.
All of the earliest Win64 development was done using Alpha systems, even after public support was dropped and Windows 2000 AXP officially abandoned, because there wasn't much by the way of Itanium hardware yet.
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Bugzilla has banned links from slashdot.
I've been using the nightlies and haven't had a problem with Slashdot for a while.
That said, if you really do feed a copy of any slashdot page to a web validator, it comes up with 100+ errors. The problem is that direct linking of Slashdot to validators have been banned by Slashdot maintainers.
I think CLI is valuable but there's a point where it is more or less a bunch of excess keypresses to perform some operation, even with tab completion.
The CLI to mySQL is attrocious for example, it seems the only way to fix it is to have a graphical interface.
Google works now, but Gmail is down for the moment.
Maybe it depends on how you define hype, but I saw a lot of Doom III hype.
"Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion"
I'd say that Doom III qualifies. Especially as people were planning their computer upgrades around it and herding into the belief that it's going to be a good game despite never having played it or seen it in action.
I don't get why you say HL2 was highly hyped and Doom III was not, I'd say the hype levels were pretty equal between them.
I thought Mac OS X was a lot more than just another Unix. If I only cared to run Unix, I'd just run some Linux distro on an x86 computer.
Actually, I do run Linux distros on a couple x86 computers running as servers and other network machines that run Linux, but I control them using a Mac, so I get a great GUI desktop interface and still have compatibility with Unix software.
Looks like an unattributed rip of part of the FAQ from this site:
http://www.multispectral.com/
If it is prefetching everything, then I would have a problem with that, from a different perspective. That increases the amount of bandwidth used by fetching a lot of pages that might not be followed. That means increased bandwidth costs unless enough users use the system such that Google's caching means that it most of the given files are already in their cache.
It is perfectly acceptable for people to believe God uses evolution as a tool. But it is not science.
I agree. I hate it when people read texts as being what it probably what it wasn't indended to be. Religious texts were probably never intended to be the final word on science, and science texts should not be used as a final word on religion.
It bothers me when people try to reconcile them, or assume that both are contradictory. I see them as very likely being orthogonal. I don't believe that the creation accounts should be taken as literal fact.
In fact, the Hebrew/Christian story of Genesis has TWO (or more?) accounts of creation, if you took both literally, then they contradict, so I figure at least one must be non-literal. I don't see how either of them necessarily has to be literal accounts of physical reality. There are many other places where statements can't be taken literally, only meant to show parallels in aiding understanding the spiritual world.
I think the list of things Hollywood gets RIGHT is much more managable. A lot of times, I think it is punched up to make it more interesting.
Road vehicles generally don't explode on a crash.
The backdraft effect in "Backdraft" is so overstated that the real thing is so boring that it wouldn't be the title of a movie unless they massively exaggerated it.
Then there's science fiction, it's hard enough for them to get their units right, never mind have internally consistent physics.
The very problem is that UMD Movies ARE selling, according to some, too well.
I agree that they are too stiffly priced. Some UMD movies are decently priced but even those should be cheaper.
To me, the convenience of portability doesn't balance out the lower resolution (little better than VCD), fewer features and the complete inability to display them on a screen other than a PSP's is pretty limiting.
Helping fund something still isn't creating it. I can buy a car, but I didn't have anything to do with inventing or creating it.
But then, geeks claim they "build" computers, even if the most they did was assemble a pile of pre-made parts. To me, turning screws and inserting tabs into slots doesn't make a builder.
It may be a good deal if you get dedicated bandwidth, provided that the connection is solid. And T1 isn't necessarily solid if you have incompetents doing the service, my local telco retards came out a dozen times in the last year fixing various line problems for my company's T1.
I would get concerned about pranksters or extorters trying to jam the signal. It's illegal to do that but the FCC doesn't seem to enforce their RF rules very much.
I'm inclined to believe that the ATI is good. Various VIA chipsets have had known issues with other hardware, like Creative's PCI sound cards, and there are notes with my Immersive video capture card that has a checkbox for a VIA workaround, no other brand required a workaround.
I doubt 512MB is necessary for that unless maybe you are running two 30" Cinema displays, and even then... Basically that is 128 million pixel storage capacity at 32bpp. One frame on a 30" Cinema display would be about 4.1 million pixels, so you'd need to have 16 full screen apps before running out on a system with 256MB cards.
My Mac mini does pretty well with 32MB on a 2048x1536 screen resolution, which is 3.2MP.
I don't mind a single reboot to install a graphics driver. As it is, there is no means to hot-plug an AGP video card that I'm aware of, so down time is required just to install that upgrade. I don't see rebooting for a very occasional upgrade. However, I don't think a reboot should be necessary for most software.
One of the things I like about OS X is that I don't have to reboot to use most software. Some OS level upgrades do require a reboot though.
Inside or outside the steeples? If it is inside a wood steeple, the wood would absorb some of the RF signal, not an impediment that is wanted.
I don't think they will ever admit it, I am surprised they didn't try to cancel the reruns with as big of an ego as some of the show producers have.
Flash memory has have a limited number of writes, hard drives have a lot more writes by orders of magnitudes. Flash memory writing can also be very slow.
I think what you mean is battery backed up memory, which I think is ordinary DRAM chips with battery backed memory controller to keep the memory refreshed.
I didn't know there was a contractual relationship with iTunes the software. You shouldn't need to sign up for the music store just to use the iTunes program.
Some people use a Gentoo system in part to be an aggressive stability test. If no problems arise from constant use of the CPU, memory and drive systems being constantly used for hours or days on end, and the result works, then it is likely a very stable system.
Actually, the current 2.3 GHz systems are at the same price bracket as last week's 2GHz systems were.
The 30" display price hasn't moved, it was $2999 for a while now. When it was first introduced, it was something like $3299 but has gone down several months ago, I think.
There are rights issues to consider, as the seller has to have the legal right to sell that track in the locale. Probably other legal issues as well. It does seem kind of silly, given that importing CDs is a trivial thing for a lot of people.
I think the referral link raises the chance of a conflict of interest. It can also be seen as a strong potential for astroturfing, where one could make up a fluff story and slyly put in a referral link in the submission. Not that either matter on Slashdot anymore, I think the chances of any story submission being unbiased and not being an ad is an all-time low now.
IIRC, the released versions of Windows NT for AXP simply used the CPU as a 32 bit machine in terms of addressing. The line about executing 64 bit instrucitons as 32 bit instructions in parallel" makes no sense because things don't work that way. The instruction word length for AXP was 32 bit just like any other 64 bit CPU.
All of the earliest Win64 development was done using Alpha systems, even after public support was dropped and Windows 2000 AXP officially abandoned, because there wasn't much by the way of Itanium hardware yet.